Scott Pruitt

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency liked a racist post about the Obamas a few years ago and engaged with prominent far-right conspiracy theorists on social media, according to screenshots published online Tuesday.

Andrew Wheeler, who has been the agency's acting administrator since Scott Pruitt resigned in July, liked a racist meme that showed Barack and Michelle Obama staring at a banana, sometime after it was published by the page in January 2013, according to a screenshot posted online by HuffPost.

The Obamas have been prominent targets of those seeking to spread the racist trope, which has a deep historical connection to racism in the United States.

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